I don't know, it was never metioned... -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC 27616 (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835
-----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 9:43 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Confessions of a liberal ya? How is this affected by that ban on new solar projects? On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Scott Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was watching some on the Discovery Channel about some new solar > technology, that collects and concentrates solar energy to drive a hydrogen > powered generator (piston driven via gas expansion), the creator says that > a > 100 sq/mi array of these devices could power the US for a year. With almost > no overhead. > > -- > Scott Stewart > ColdFusion Developer > 4405 Oakshyre Way > Raleigh, NC 27616 > (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:07 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Confessions of a liberal > > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Rick Root wrote: > > > I'm a liberal, I think. > > > > I pro-choice. > > > Me too. > > > > I believe in much tighter gun control. > > > The problem is how, in practice, gun "control" really works. Liberals have > always mocked the "If guns are illegal, only criminals will own guns." > slogan of the NRA, but that is exactly what happens. Reasonable > restrictions > are fine, but people need to be able to defend themselves. > > Look at Mexico. Guns are illegal in Mexico, and yet they have incredible > problems with gun violence and kidnapping. Hell, look at DC. The SC > recognized the problem, which is why they struck down the DC handgun ban. > > > > I think we > > should help the poor and the stupid. > > > More than we do already? How do we pay for it? > > > > I think Exxon should be forced > > to pay their fucking debt to Alaska with 20 fucking years of interest. > > > Exxon has shelled out a ton of money, as they should have, and they have to > pay another $300 million, according to the SC. > > > > > > I think we should have some kind of nationalized health care for > > children and college students. > > > > Health care is a huge mess, not the least because of government bureaucracy > and endless red tape of insurance companies. > > > > > > I think we should do more research into alternative fuels. I do > > believe we should reduce our dependence on foreign oil and > > conservation, mass transit, and alternative fuels are excellent long > > term options. > > > Telecommuting. We need to stop driving so freaking far every day. > Alternative fuels? Better batteries and fuel cells are what I would like to > see. I think McCain's idea of a $300 million prize for a better battery is > OK, but if someone actually built such a battery, the payout in the market > would be billions, tens of billions potentially. > > > > > > > I am a liberal.. but not an environmental wacko. > > > > I think we SHOULD be drilling in Alaska and off our coastlines. The > > alaskan pipeline is not the environmental disaster that the > > environmental wackos said it would be. I don't believe that oil rigs > > off the coast of north carolina are going to be harmful to the coastal > > environment. All them rigs out in the Gulf survived Katrina just > > fine. I might be worried if that volcano in Africa exploded and fell > > into the Atlantica all of the sudden, but if that happend, we'd have > > bigger problems (the tsumani could potentially flood the entire > > eastern seabord to 100 miles inland!) > > > > Break out the drills! The enviros have it all wrong here. > > > > > > We need to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil sooner than later, > > and research is a LONG term solution. > > > +1 > > > > > > I also think we should be building MORE nuke plants. I live within 10 > > miles of the Harris facility just outside of Raleigh, NC. It has one > > reactor but the design is capable of sustaining 5 reactors. I'm okay > > with that. I think nuclear power is safe and we should use more of it > > not less. > > > > > If electric cars and plug-in hybrids are coming our way, and i think > > they are, we need more electricity, and I'd rather it be nuclear than > > coal powered. > > > > The biggest challenge with nuclear power is storing spent fuel. The irony > is > that we could re-process the fuel and re-use it, eliminating virtually all > of the highly radioactive waste, but there has been a ban on re-processing > (because the resulting materials could be weaponized) since the Carter > Administration banned it by executive order. That needs to be undone. The > French re-process all of their fuel. We can learn a LOT from the French > nuclear industry. > > > > > > We see ads around here for "Clean Coal" all the time... but Duke Power > > still wants to build dirty coal plans. I don't support that. I don't > > know that much about "clean coal" but I certainly don't like the sound > > of "dirty coal". > > > > Clean coal plants are very cool from a technology perspective, but > expensive > to build. The challenge is how to do away with "dirty coal" plants without > a > huge increase in the cost of electricity. A combination of nuclear, natural > gas, wind, and clean coal could be the answer. > > > > > > > Drill for oil whereever we can, and build more nuke plants. > > > > I guess I'm not all liberal.... ;) > > > > Nah, it just means you are a normal person and not a "true believer". > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:263099 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
